When Jacqueline Kim announced the narrative awards, she said the SFIAFF (which she has attended four times including in 1997) is one of the best festivals in the world. She concluded the evening with, "This festival rocks!"Eric Byler told people to go out and make a difference.

Here are the winners (with links and some of the San Jose screenings added):

The Best Narrative Feature Award went to Stephane Gauger's debut
feature, OWL AND THE SPARROW. The Jury also presented a Special Jury
Award to TRE (Dir. Eric Byler - playing at 6:45 pm on Saturday) Additionally, the Jury honored actor Ken
Leung with a Special Mention for his work in two Festival films:
SHANGHAI KISS (Dirs. Kern Konwiser and David Ren - playing Friday at 7 pm) and YEAR OF THE FISH
(Dir. David Kaplan - playing Sunday at 9:30 pm). The Comcast Audience Award for Narrative Feature
went to AMERICAN PASTIME (Dir. Desmond Nakano - playing Sunday at 6:45 pm).